No kidding. I thought my post was gonna kill this thread but I'm glad it didn't. My first addiction was tobacco, then alcohol, then coke and morphine around the same time. I used to lay on my couch and take morphine until I couldn't move so I'd snort some coke and then I'd be too speedy to fall asleep before I crashed, so then I'd smoke pot. And I ate probably three times a week. Think of what that did to my body — I'm lucky I don't glow.
And pook, about 3 pages ago you asked where I got morphine from. My main dealer back in the day had something worked out with a nurse who traded him expired vials for other drugs. She was a mess - duster girl times ten. I did her once, but I'm not proud. Freak though.
Anyway, yeah, drugs are bad, but I don't think pot is anything at all. Factory workers smoke joints in the parking lot on break and then go back to work and operate their heavy duty metal-saw and go years without an injury. It's not like Refer Madness, which if you haven't seen you should rent it today. It was US gov't produced propaganda that made "marijuana addicts" out to be rapists and violent criminals. Funny stuff.
I can see if a drug is made legal how it would lose popularity. Pot is one of the most popular drugs here right now, and I think half of the reason for that is that it's not addictive and it doesn't make you see things and it only lasts a few hours. A side effect might be real drugs like coke and heroin getting more popular because of the naughty factor.
In the end, the gov't can't get rid of drugs. You can buy them in prison for the christs sake. There will always be a decent sized portion of the population who wants to use, so they will.
